A New Foundation is Coming

As a Native American child and raised in the Church, I always took to heart from my teachings to build everything upon a firm foundation.
I stand back and observe, and as I grow older, I can analyze today's events and associate the firm foundation that America built.
The settlers came first and took the land to claim to have discovered where we already live. Stolen land is what we hear the elders say. So we started with our first American foundation of thievery.
As the new settlers that escaped religious prosecution from their home countries arrived, they set up religious rules. These rules led those who disagreed with the establishers to burn at the stake and killed as savages and witches. We started with our second American foundation as murderers.
There were not enough workers to build this country, so we stole people from another land and called them possessions. This practice went on for many years, even after the declaration of so-called freedom. We continue to have unjust and unfair practices as to say that we are less than human and merely a possession. We started with our third American foundation of humans as commodities.
We as Americans support the use of guns for more than hunting meat. We have lost control or never had the power of the concept of gun violence. We have forgotten that the west was won by shooting anything that was in the way; how is it any different now.  We live by the sword and die by the sword; our fourth American foundation is defensive.
Americans have desecrated mother earth, taking more than is needed, not considering her healing. We have tilled our mid-west where nothing grows, and all we needed was to plant a seed. We modified our food source with chemicals and overuse of pesticides. Our water is wormwood. We mass-produce animals and control our natural resources to have game hunting. Now we question why we are on fire with many wildfires.
The Creator is no longer going to protect America, and our Mother is fighting back. This foundation is crumbling, and a new foundation is coming.
Tyrese Bright Flower Gould Jacinto
Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape